Senior Manager, Foundation Partnerships
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Foundation Partnerships will provide the coordination, grant management, and partnership communications required to support a major institutional foundation partnership. Serving as a central point of contact, this role will ensure alignment across internal and external stakeholders, effective management of key dates and deliverables, and clear, timely communication across UNICEF Canada, Global Foundations team, Country Offices, and Regional Offices. The successful candidate is a highly organized relationship-builder who can manage complex coordination across multiple teams, maintain strong systems for follow-up, and support high-quality stewardship and reporting for a valued institutional foundation partner. Reporting to the Executive Vice President, Development, this position will strengthen the operational infrastructure, collaboration, and communications needed to support a high-value institutional foundation partnership, helping to advance UNICEF’s mission for children through exceptional partnership management and execution.
Requirements
- Demonstrated 5-7 years of experience in partnership management, project management, grant management, government communications and relations, international development, or a related field.
- Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple timelines, stakeholders, deliverables, and competing priorities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize information and prepare clear materials for different audiences.
- Experience leading and influencing cross-functional, geographically dispersed, or matrixed teams to achieve shared objectives.
- Strong attention to detail, with the ability to establish and maintain effective systems, processes, and documentation.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment, discretion, and diplomacy when working with internal teams and external partners.
- Proficiency with project management, CRM, and collaboration tools, including Asana, MS Office, Raiser’s Edge and Salesforce.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with institutional donors, foundations, grants, or international programs is an asset.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate monthly/quarterly stakeholder meetings, updates, and follow-ups among UNICEF Canada, Global teams, Country Offices and Regional Offices to capture status updates across the internal network.
- Develop and maintain meeting agendas, actions, briefing notes, timelines, and shared coordination tools to support effective partnership management and decision-making.
- Track and monitor partnership commitments, grant deliverables, dependencies, &reporting requirements, proactively identifying and escalating risks, gaps, or delays that may impact partnership objectives.
- Facilitate effective information flow and alignment between teams to ensure that partnership priorities, program updates, and donor requirements are understood and acted upon.
- Serve as a central coordination point for scheduling, document sharing, and internal preparation for partner-facing engagements, including the Partnership Council meetings with the external partner.
- Oversee grant management processes, including detailed milestone tracking, reporting deadlines, approvals, payment schedules, and key partnership deliverables.
- Support Director, International Programs & Emergencies with UNICEF Canada’s oversight of programmatic reporting by tracking timelines, milestone reminders, and ensuring deliverables are provided on schedule.
- Coordinate with relevant internal and global stakeholders to collect accurate program, financial, and impact information for donor reporting, stewardship and decision-making.
- Monitor progress against agreed grant requirements and escalate risks or delays in a timely manner.
- Maintain organized records of grant-related documents, correspondence, reporting inputs, and partner commitments in Raiser’s Edge, UNISON, and Asana.
- Lead coordination of partnership communications across UNICEF Canada, Global teams and Country Offices to ensure messaging is consistent, timely, and aligned with partnership objectives.
- Draft, review, and coordinate updates, briefing materials, meeting notes, and partner-facing correspondence as needed.
- Coordinate the development of program updates and stewardship materials that reflect partner priorities and UNICEF’s programmatic work.
- Ensure consistency of messaging and partnerships of communications planning across the various grants.
- Provide an oversite of overall partnership communications strategies, ensuing alignment with donor expectations and organizational priorities.
- Maintain visibility on upcoming communications needs and ensure relevant teams have adequate time and information to contribute.
Benefits
- Extended Health/Dental benefits
- Healthcare Spending Account
- Wellness Account
- Life, AD&D, & Long-Term disability insurance coverage
- Access to parental leave top-up
- Fixed-hybrid work environment
- Minimum 3 weeks of annual vacation (increases with time served)
- 1 additional day per year of service (max 30)
- 10 paid sick days
- 2 personal days
- 9 employee wellness days
- Discounted rate for a GoodLife gym membership
- Access to an Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Access to a comprehensive global learning platform with over 1600 courses, webinars & resources
- Internal leadership development, training, & mentorship programs that integrate Anti-Racism and diversity, equity and inclusion principles
- Opportunities to access both local & global stretch assignments
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
